{"id":687866,"date":"2026-07-12T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687866\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:15:27","slug":"forking-out-on-dinner-the-rise-of-the-60-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687866\/","title":{"rendered":"Forking out on dinner: the rise of the \u00a360 main"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">Duck is one of Moffat\u2019s favourite things on the menu for its taste and sustainability (he buys whole birds directly from a farm). One portion of duck at Winsome costs the diner \u00a342. \u201cThat\u2019s the absolute minimum we can charge,\u201d he says, listing VAT, rent, staff wages, utilities and business rates. If he were to price the dish profitably, he says: \u201cIt would have to be about \u00a352 \u2013 that would be for me to be able to have any profit to put in the bank for a rainy day when something breaks or we\u2019re quiet.\u201d At \u201cfull\u201d price, with one side, plus service charge of 12.5%, the duck main course would be \u00a365.50. \u201cFor me, I\u00a0think it\u2019s worth it,\u201d Moffat says, \u201cbut then again that\u2019s more than four hours\u2019 work for someone [on minimum wage].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duck is one of Moffat\u2019s favourite things on the menu for its taste and sustainability (he buys whole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,4229,1294,3783,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-restaurants","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}